Hellgate is a 1952 American Western film directed by Charles Marquis Warren and starring Sterling Hayden.

[3][4] Hellgate Prison is an aptly named facility in the desert where the worst criminals are sent.

Hanley, a veterinarian and former Civil War soldier, is falsely accused and convicted of a crime.

He immediately gets on the wrong side of Voorhees, a vicious guard, and Redfield, a mean convict.

Hanley will need to fight his way out, particularly when the prisoners are afflicted with an epidemic of a spreading typhus fever.